Provost's Innovation Challenge @ Tangent 2020 - Hack Plastics
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Tangent, Trinity's Ideas Workspace
1st floor TBS Pearse Street Dublin 2 IrelandDescription
Hack Plastics and make a real impact with the Provost's Innovation Challenge @ Tangent!!
We know how important global and societal issues are to our students. At Tangent, Trinity’s Ideas Workspace, we are committed to empowering Trinity students to make a real impact on society and the world. This year we are once again running the Provost’s Innovation Challenge @ Tangent, and the Trinity community voted that 'Over-reliance on Plastics' should be the problem to be worked on in 2020.
- 5.25 trillion pieces of plastic are currently in our oceans
- 40% of plastic produced globally is used just once
- One million drinking bottles are purhcased every minute
- We produce 300 million tonnes of plastic waste every year
Take part in our hackathon, come up with creative solutions to the plastics problem, and win €10,000 in funding to work on your idea on the LaunchBox summer accelerator programme.
Tuesday 3 March: 9.30am Kick-off of the Challenge, team building, and scoping the problem with frontline experts.
Wednesday 4 March: 9.30am - 5pm Solving the problem - working on creative solutions in groups and forming teams; coaches from organisations like Social Innovation Fund; Startup Boost; Talent Garden; and more.
Thursday 5 March: 9.30am - 4pm Working on and communicating your idea;
4pm - 6pm Judging for the Provost's Innovation Challenge after which the winning team will be given €10k as well as the opportunity to work on their idea over the summer as part of LaunchBox, Tangent's Student Accelerator.
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TANGENT, TRINITY’S IDEAS WORKSPACE IS A PLACE IN WHICH TO IMAGINE, COLLABORATE AND PUT INTO ACTION IDEAS THAT CAN CHANGE THE WORLD.
Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin is committed to providing a transformative learning environment that fosters innovation and entrepreneurship at all levels across the university. The opportunities opening up today are infinite. They are invisible to some, impossible to others. Identifying these opportunities to students requires new tools and methods. Realising them requires imagination.
Tangent is a new unit in Trinity offering students, staff, and the wider innovation ecosystem programmes and events in innovation, creative thinking, and entrepreneurship. Through our masterclasses, innovation challenges, certificate programmes, hackathons, meetups, fireside chats, incubation space, and startup accelerator programmes – Tangent provides countless opportunities to innovate and imagine. All of which will be held in a newly developed bespoke innovation space on Trinity’s main campus.
IMAGINATION We inspire, challenge and provoke a creative mindset among our student population. Through effective education and supports, Tangent helps to spark our students’ imagination. We encourage curiosity and ideation. This is what helps us to create real impact.
COLLABORATION We embrace the creative fusion that happens when arts meet science, and education meets enterprise. Through collaboration we believe that when we come together with an open mind and embrace alternative ways of thinking, no challenge is too complex, no opportunity out of reach.
ACTION We do not stop at ideas. We create impact, disruption, and enterprises. Tangent values action. We encourage our students to try to create new possibilities. We deliver economic, cultural and social value through entrepreneurship. Our students perseverance enables their ideas to come alive.